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DUO POEMATA: Ilion - A Transcription & Altertumswissenschaft
Jack Foley wrote of the two poems in this book: "Their vast reach and their vast reading include the Classics and the realm of Pound's Cantos, where the dead and the living mingle. James Joyce's "nighttown" is here as well, and we feel the constant presence of the author's identical twin, José (1939-2011). These poems are not for the faint of feeling or the faint of intellect, but they are for those who value poetry, literature, the world." He illustrates his point with these four lines from Ivan's book: "women skilled in weaving and ornamentation you shall have/ to accompany you to the other earth and to hold in your hand/ a distaff and by your side a harp to sing the lonely nights/ in the labyrinth of sleep..."
Talking to Valum Votan
Iván Argüelles' Talking to Valum Votan begins with a great cry: the animals don't realize susceptible to dying a death a thousand and years pass through a siphon well-water turns bitter darkness the exodus of flies through a miasma of rotted verdure the lawn of innocence prey to literature do not accept the thought coming to an end of the air that we breathe The mind circles around various areas of (related) awareness and settles into "Do not accept / the thought of coming to an end." This non-acceptance is of course a way of coming to terms with what the poets knows all too well will be a "coming to an end of the air that we / breathe." Born in 1939, Argüelles has been a powerful force f...
The Blank Page
New poems.
ORPHIC CANTOS
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Ivan Arguelles is a poet who does not mine the general American vein of didactic or 'therapeutic' poetry that is supposed to be of use in some way. What he creates is an expansive romantic/surrealist summoning of multiple, swarming worlds and histories. This makes him one of the most authentic poets working in English today, and one of the most beautiful in his use of language. His voice is unique, but each of his books has its own timbre, point of view; its own movement and thematic centers. In ORPHIC CANTOS, those centers revolve around the paradoxes of language and consciousness, which are understood to be at the very marrow of the human. The nature of his engagement over the past 40 years has been far more than a desire to write 'poetry'; rather, poetry is the embodiment of a complex psychic need, the air he needs to be in the life form and time he occupies. When you read Arguelles' work, you are immersed in the basic human experience. His work is a great treasure." John M. Bennett"
Fragments from a Gone World
Poetry. "If you are new to surrealism, do not look for temporal narratives, grammatical English constructs, or linear development in FRAGMENTS FROM A GONE WORLD. Rather find a quiet chair alone, kick back, and let these images diffuse, expand, pulse, explode, rebound, rattle, resonate, sizzle, soar, and fizz in your resting consciousness... or receptive unconsciousness. The result you will find is haunting, mystical, otherworldly, and...I have found...very vividly transporting. No two of you will have a similar experience, but all will be charged with a desire to remember and speak of the journey inward." --Slade Schuster
Argüelles Manuscripts
Collection includes manuscripts of Ivan Argüelles' Madonna Septet and other works, 1997-2000; manuscripts and drafts for Chac Prostibulario by Argüelles and John M. Bennett, 1999; and email correspondence between Argüelles and Bennett regarding all of the material in this collection.
"That" Goddess
Poetry. "If proof were needed that Surrealism is a spontaneous expression of the poetic mind, Ivan Arguelles would be the one to provide it. In the tradition of the madder, darker, and more mystical Surrealists like Rene Crevel and Antonin Artaud, Arguelles weaves his mad web of images out of an impossible depth. Unlike the more superficial image makers who lay claim to the Surrealist label out of sheer laziness or because 'it looks easy, ' Arguelles is genuine" -Andrei Codrescu
Ars Poetica
Poetry. ARS POETICA is not a sonnet sequence—despite the resemblances—but a sequence of "soundings." Each poem is carefully dated: it was precisely at this moment that these words occurred to me; it was at this moment that I breathed these words in ("inspiration"). Remembering Wordsworth, we might call these poems spots of time.
